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<v 0>For turnover in the last two games for Atlanta, here's a nice carry Byre.</v>

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<v 1>Steve being evicted, having surgery, having to go to court.</v>

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That taught me to have no expectations of my, of anyone. Other than myself.

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<v 3>Melody rivers was evicted from her home in 2019,</v>

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shortly after finding out she had precancerous polyps and had to have emergency

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surgery. She was laid off from her job. When she came home from surgery,

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she had received a three day notice to pay her rent.

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And after pleading her case in court was evicted from her home.

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<v 1>Had I not gone to court to stand up for myself?</v>

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I just think I would've been out on the streets. And I wrote a simple letter,

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very simple plain letter. This is what happened.

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I have short term disability.

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I'm waiting for their approval would issue it.

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I have this amount of money and cash on hand.

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The VA administration will pay you X, Y,

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Z dollars. All you have to do is sign.

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And that's why I presented to the courts. And he didn't sign.

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<v 3>Even though melody had receive funding from veterans affairs to help pay her</v>

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rent.

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Her landlord decided not to accept her VA funding by law in

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Washington. State, landlords are not required to accept partial payments.

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<v 1>It is so easy to be evicted in Washington state by a blink of an eye.</v>

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Because if you owe a penny,

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You can be evicted For a penny.

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That's why you see so many homelessness people out there.

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Someone is getting ready to put you out in snow,

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Snow four to six inches of snow, cuz that's how it was.

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Then I had to fight for myself because your journey's short,

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It's short and everyone, everyone out here

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Deserves happiness in life and that's it in the cell.

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So the only thing that's unique about it is my name is melody rivers.

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I had colon cancer. I was evicted, but by the grace of God,

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I fought for me. I fought for myself.